Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image recording apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 图像记录装置
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Application No.: US12853683Application Date: 2010-08-10
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Publication No.: US09126779B2Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Yoshinori Osakabe
- Applicant: Yoshinori Osakabe
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2009-196974 20090827
- Main IPC: B65H1/00
- IPC: B65H1/00 ; B65H9/04 ; B65H3/06 ; B65H5/26

Abstract:
An apparatus is provided that may offer functionalities including printing, scanning and/or copying. The apparatus may include a manual sheet feeding tray disposed at the rear of the apparatus. The height of the sheet feeding tray might not exceed a height of the apparatus, allowing use of the apparatus in spaces having smaller depths. The apparatus may include a sheet guide configured to move in conjunction with the movement of the tray. In some arrangements, a surface of the sheet feeding tray may differ in height between lateral edges of the tray and a central portion. This difference may cause a sheet to be curved in a lateral direction, rendering the sheet more inflexible in a longitudinal direction. According to other aspects, a depressed portion of the tray may match a protrusion extending from the guide in shape such that the two portions may mate in a retracted position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110049791A1 Image Recording Apparatus Public/Granted day:2011-03-03
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